"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.“


-Abraham Maslow

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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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